A new handbook for every teacher's desk. Years of research and experience distilled into practical options for handling the teachers' many tasks: from beginning a class to maintaining engagement, from motivating slackers to managing disrupters, from building efficient routines to cushioning student anxiety, from individualizing instruction to…

Fueled by a culture fascinated by numbers and increased accountability, data-driven instruction has become a mighty force as it joins with the tools of technology to handle the mammoth task of gathering, sorting, analyzing, and synthesizing data. Success stories from districts all over the country attest to the positive results of implementing…

Malcolm Knowles laments the paucity of "thinking, investigating, and writing about adult learning" in the opening sentence of his theoretical framework of "Andragogy" (1998, p. 35). Knowles' central argument is that we learn differently as adults from how we learn as children, so we should tailor adult education accordingly. Knowles highlighted…

Creating differentiated art curricula to accommodate artistically talented student individual needs may enhance student performance and program outcomes. This digest discusses: (1) individual education plans for artistically able students with exceptionalities; (2) subgroups of students with dual exceptionalities; (3) methods of teaching students…

Individually Guided Education (IGE) is an alternative to the traditional age-graded form of elementary schooling. In a typical IGE school, the principal shares her/his authority with leaders of units in decision-making domains and reaches decision by consensus. The leader of a unit in turn shares his/her authority with unit teachers in making…

The steps involved in setting up an individualized course utilizing multi-media are enumerated with an example of the individualized approach in secretarial science courses. The advantages to the program are that the focus is on the student, and the program is flexible and easily updated. (AG)

Tells how one public school faculty changed the school curriculum to suit the individual needs of the students. (RB)

Attempts to resolve the contradiction between motivating children and teaching them certain reading skills by organizing them into two complementary types of groups, direct instruction and independent activities. (RB)

Description of the Change Program for Individually Guided Education (IGE) which was developed by the Institute for Development of Educational Activities. (HMD)

An individualized study approach to learning the occupation of sewing machine mechanic was developed by Union Special Corporation. The approach utilizes audiovisual aids to a great extent. The time spent in training has been cut from two years to ten weeks. (AG)

A modified plan to incorporate competency-based instruction and individualized units into a mechanical design-drafting course is outlined. (MS)

Eight and nine-year old students in an open classroom engaged in many activities designed to increase their care of their teeth. The teeth of these students and those of a control group were examined and rated on the Podshadley Hygiene Performance Index both before and after the activities. A significant difference existed between pre- and…

Urges teachers to hold individual conferences with students in order to meet students' individual writing needs. (RB)